Lynden Pindling International Airport (IATA: NAS, ICAO: MYNN), formerly known as Nassau International Airport, is the largest airport in the Bahamas and the largest international gateway into the country. It is a major hub for Bahamasair, Western Air, and Pineapple Air. the airport is located in western New Providence island near the capital city of Nassau.

Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. The last execution in the country was on January 6, 2000. As of August 2012, only one convict, Mario Flowers, was under the sentence of death. …

Bimini / ˈ b ɪ m ɪ n iː / is the westernmost district of the Bahamas and comprises a chain of islands located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) due east of Miami. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately 210 km (130 mi) west-northwest of Nassau.The population is 1,988 as of the 2010 census.

On 7 November 1841, in what has been described as "the most successful revolt of enslaved people in U.S. history", a mutiny occurred on the New Orleans-bound Creole which was transporting some 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia; after wounding the captain and killing one of the slave traders, the mutineers navigated the ship to the Bahamas ...

CocoCay or Little Stirrup Cay is one of the Berry Islands, a collection of Bahamian cays and small islands located approximately 55 miles north of Nassau. It is used for tourism by Royal Caribbean Group exclusively. Little Stirrup Cay is adjacent to Great Stirrup Cay, Norwegian Cruises' private island since 1977.

Andros Island is an archipelago within the Bahamas, the largest of the Bahamian Islands.Politically considered a single island, Andros in total has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined. The land area of Andros consists of hundreds of small islets and cays connected by mangrove estuaries and tidal swamplands, together with three major …

Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 6,283 as of 2012.. The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the Great Abaco Highway, which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour.

Junkanoo is a large contributor to the music of The Bahamas. It is a type of street carnival which occurs on December 26 and New Year's Day (January 1).This traditional celebration was started with an African slave by the name of John Canoe.Slaves were given a special holiday at Christmas time, when they could leave the work of the plantation behind and celebrate their …

Central banks have directly implemented e-money previously, such as Finland's Avant stored value e-money card in the 1990s. In 2000, the I LIKE Q [] project was launched in Czechia, [self-published source?] enabling the implementation of so-called micropayments on the Internet. For payments, users used the virtual currency Q, the fair value of which is tied to a fixed exchange …

The United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is a laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare – calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction.Its mission is to assist in establishing and maintaining …

Little San Salvador Island, also known as Half Moon Cay, is one of about 700 islands that make up the archipelago of The Bahamas.It is located roughly halfway between Eleuthera and Cat Island, administratively in the Cat Island District. It is a private island, owned by Carnival Corporation & plc, which uses it as a port of call for the cruise ships it operates in the region.

Exuma is a district of The Bahamas, consisting of over 365 islands, also called cays.. The largest of the cays is Great Exuma, which is 37 mi (60 km) in length and joined to another island, Little Exuma, by a small bridge.

Bahamas, formellt Samväldet Bahamas, [2] är en stat bestående av en kedja av ett stort antal öar i Västindien utspridda mellan Florida och Kuba, varav 30 är bebodda.Landet täcker en landyta på cirka 10 000 kvadratkilometer, och befolkningen uppgår till cirka 350 000 invånare år 2021. [1] Bahamas ekonomi är till stor del beroende av turism, bland annat från det närliggande USA.

This article is a list of countries by the number of road motor vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants. This includes cars, vans, buses, freight and other trucks, but excludes two-wheelers. China has the largest fleet of motor vehicles in the world in 2022, with 307 million motor vehicles, excluding two-wheelers and in 2009 became the world's largest new car market as well.